Special Screening of "Revolution OS"

Deven Phillips dphillips at viata.com
Thu Sep 20 13:42:52 PDT 2001


David,

	Do we have a date and time yet, or is it too early to know? I would like to 
print invitations for certain people that should probably see this film and 
have them sent with prepurchased tickets.

Deven Phillips, CISSP
Network Architect
Viata, Inc.


On Thursday 20 September 2001 09:32 am, you wrote:
 My thoughts exactly. Although we've been promoting the use of Linux in our
 publication for 2 years now, the general public still has little knowledge
 what Linux is and what Open Source represents. Because Linux doesn't have a
 marketing entity little information gets out the the general public even
 though tons of information is constantly circulating in the Linux community.

 Linux will never gain the wide spread acceptance that the bigger commercial
 OSes has unless the general public is properly informed to what it is, what
 it represents and most importantly, what it can do for them.

 This movie that will be presented at the upcoming Hawaii International Film
 Festival and will hope that more than just the linux community shows up.
 We'll do our part to get the general computing community to come out. We'd
 like to have the Linux community show up in force and interact with the rest
 of the computing industry to answer questions and dispel some of the
 misconceptions that are out there.

 David Oshiro
 Managing Editor
 Hawaiian Hard Drive

 -----Original Message-----
 From: mathisha [mailto:mathisha at hawaii.rr.com]
 Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 6:24 PM
 To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
 Subject: [luau] Re: Special Screening of "Revolution OS"


 From the snippet on the web, the movie seems quite accessible for non geeks.
 The
 interview style reminds me a lot of Cringly's
 "Triumph of the Nerds" {http://www.pbs.org/cringely/bobsworld.html) and
 "Hype!" (http://enquirer.com/columns/mcgurk/013197c_mm.html)
 which was very successful in introducing a culture (like the grunge scene in
 Seattle) to outsiders such as humble self.

 Revolution OS might seem like publicity boast for Linux/OSS advocacy in
 Honolulu
 if this could be screened at ITEC. However, this movie NEEDS to be exposed
 to
 people outside the geek community via a venue such as the film festival.
 Otherwise we'll still be wondering why "the public" don't "get" the issues
 behind things like open source. "Revolution OS" is a rare chance to present
 issues usually sterotyped as "too techi" in a digestable format.  We
 shouldn't
 miss out on it.

 mathisha

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